[MLB-WIRELESS] Wireless PCI Cards

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

Have you not noticed yet that for all the wireless cards available maybe 90%
at the very least are PCMCIA.  In a lot of those cases the manufacturer offers
a PCI option which is in fact the exact same PCMCIA card bundled with a PCI
adapter.

PCI Adapters will also still require a pigtail style adapter.

I am very doubtful you will cover 800m with a standard card without an antenna.
Usually when a manufacturer says a card will cover say 500m at the most....they
generally mean outdoors in an area where there is nothing restricing LOS between
the actual cards.
The cards won't be able to transmit through the walls of your house, and through
all the walls of your neighbouring houses to reach your mate.
I'd recommend you just have a crack at one of the Pringle can antennas.  Being
so close to your mate, cable loss shouldn't matter too much if you run like
4 meters of cable out the wall up to a pringles can on the roof.
(anyone correct me if i'm wrong here)


>Ok, finally someone else has brought up the subject. Why is everyone
>purchasing PCMCIA and not PCI ? Surely a PCI (a little more expensive
>maybe, but when u take into consideration a PCMCIA needs the adapter,
>the pigtails etc etc etc) its got to be viable? 
>
>I have a friend very interested in wireless (the only LOS to me infact)
>but he is hesitant to purchase the gear, because he needs so much stuff.
>We don't need flashy, beefy, reach 60km range kind of stuff. Its 800m,
>so with a standard hi-range card without an antenna, it should make the
>distance.
>
>Can anyone please give me a few examples of PCI cards to look out for?
>That have the external antenna jack, and any parts you need are easy to
>get etc?
>
>I also have a hell of a lot of pc's and only one laptop, so I would
>prefer to use one as dedicated. In total I have 9 computers.
>5 Pentium 100 systems, 1 Pentium 300, 1 athlonxp 1900 sys, 1 thunderbird
>1gig sys.
>
>I was hoping to use the P100's as dedicated server's.
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Also if you knew ballpark
>figures of what they are worth ? that would be also appreciated.
>
>
>Thanking you,
>
>Anthony


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